Buckle up: the month dedicated to all things horror has arrived, and all of the streaming services are celebrating accordingly with October’s new library additions. Criterion Channel, Hulu, HBO Max, Kanopy, Netflix, Peacock, Paramount+, Pluto TV, Shudder, and Tubi have announced their October 2025 lineups, ensuring your Halloween watchlists will be packed from now through November.
Arriving in October are the streaming premieres of V/H/S/Halloween on Shudder, Vicious on Paramount+, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle on Hulu, and The Elixir on Netflix. Also, look for recent releases like Bring Her Back to arrive on streaming, buried among the overwhelming selection of horror titles hitting your favorite platforms this Halloween season.
Check out the October 2025 horror streaming lineup below.
Criterion Channel
‘Possession’
October 1
Altered States
Big Trouble in Little China
Bug
Christine
Dahmer
Dark Star
Eraserhead
Escape from L.A.
Escape from New York
Eyes Without a Face
Fascination
Ghosts of Mars
In the Mouth of Madness
Lake Mungo
Lips of Blood
Lost in New York
Matango
May
Possession
Prince of Darkness
REC
Requiem for a Vampire
Rogue
Shivers
Stuck
Teeth
The Brood
The Face of Another
The Fly
The Fog
The Grapes of Death
The Living Dead Girl
The Others
They Live
Toolbox Murders
Triangle
Trouble Every Day
Vampires
What Lies Beneath
HBO Max
‘The Substance’
October 1
A Nightmare on Elm Street
A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child
Beetlejuice
Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh
Christine
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
Drag me to Hell
Firestarter
Freaks
Freddy vs. Jason
Friday the 13th (2009)
From Hell It Came
Gone Girl
Gremlins (1984)
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
Halloween: Resurrection
Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers
Hereditary
House of Wax (1953)
House on Haunted Hill (1958)
Insidious: Chapter 2
Insidious: Chapter 3
Interview with the Vampire
Isle of the Dead
Macabre
Pearl: The X-Traordinary Origin Story
Poltergeist (1982)
Scooby-Doo (2002)
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
Talk to Me
The Disembodied
The Exorcist (1973)
The Monster
The Mummy (1959)
The Mummy (2017)
The Mystery of the Wax Museum
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Return of Doctor X
The Shining
The Sixth Sense
The Walking Dead (1936)
The Witch
Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride
Trick ‘r Treat
X
Zombies on Broadway
October 3
Bring Her Back
October 10
The Substance
Hulu
‘The Empty Man’
October 1
Barbarian
Blade (1998)
Blade 2
Blade: Trinity
Halloween (2018)
Hide And Seek (2005)
Nightmare Alley
Saw
Saw 2
Saw 3
Saw 4
Saw 5
Saw 6
Saw: The Final Chapter
Scream
Scream 2
Scream 3
Sinister
The Empty Man
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
The Last Witch Hunter
Underwater (2020)
October 3
The Happening
The Sixth Sense
Werewolves
October 7
The Rule of Jenny Pen
October 8
Stay
October 10
The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
The Hills Have Eyes 2
The Omen (2006)
Saint Clare
October 16
The Cabin in the Woods
October 17
40 Acres
October 22
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (2025)
October 28
The Exorcism
Kanopy
‘Your Monster’
October 3
Your Monster
Paranormal Activity
The Blackcoat’s Daughter
October 10
Under the Skin
Scream
Men
Timecrimes (2009) Magnolia Pictures
October 17
V/H/S
October 24
Triangle
October 31
The Monkey
Netflix
‘The Wratch of Becky’
October 1
Death Becomes Her
Dracula
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
Red Dragon
Sinister 2
Slender Man
The Strangers
When a Stranger Calls
The Wrath of Becky
October 4
Night of the Living Dead
October 7
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
October 23
The Elixir
Paramount+
Dakota Fanning stars in Paramount Pictures’ “VICIOUS.”
October 1
30 Days of Night
American Psycho
American Psycho II: All American Girl
Hostel
Hostel: Part II
House at the End of the Street
I See You
In Fabric
King Kong (1976)
Lake Placid
Nightcrawler
Panic Room
Prophecy
Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders
Scooby-Doo and the Legend of the Vampire
Scooby-Doo and the Loch Ness Monster
Scooby-Doo in Where’s My Mummy?
Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster
Scream
Scream 2
Scream 3
Searching
The Babysitter
The Craft
The Evil Dead (1981)
The First Purge
The Fly (1986)
The Menu
The Prophecy
The Prophecy 3: The Ascent
The Prophecy II
The Prophecy: Forsaken
The Prophecy: Uprising
The Shallows
Urban Legend
October 10
Vicious
Peacock
‘Slither’
October 1
American Psycho
American Psycho 2
Bones And All
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
The Crow
Darkman
Dead Silence
Event Horizon
Exorcist: The Beginning
Friday The 13th
Friday The 13th – Part II
Friday The 13th – Part III
Fright Night
The Frightners
From Dusk Till Dawn
Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters II
The Hitcher
Krampus
Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3
Leprechaun
Leprechaun II
Leprechaun III
Leprechaun 4: Lost In Space
Leprechaun Origins
Leprechaun V: In The Hood
Leprechaun VI: Back 2 Tha Hood
Mama
The Mist
Monster House
The Omen
Ouija: Origin Of Evil
The People Under The Stairs
Poltergeist
The Purge
The Purge: Election Year
Quarantine
The Ring
Scary Movie
Scream
Scream 2
Scream 3
Shaun Of The Dead
Silent Hill
Silent Hill: Revelation 3D
Silent House
The Skeleton Key
Slither
Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation
Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride
Van Helsing
The Visit
The Wolf Man (1941)
World War Z
October 14
Cocaine Bear
October 15
Don’t Breathe
Jurassic World
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
October 16
The Cabin in the Woods
Prime Video
(L-R) Sophie Thatcher as Iris and Jack Quaid as Josh in New Line Cinema’s “COMPANION”, a Warner Bros. Pictures release.
October 1
Bodies Bodies Bodies
Bride of Frankenstein
Candyman (1992)
Cat People (1982)
Creature From The Black Lagoon (1954)
Dracula (1931)
End of Days
Frankenstein (1931)
Ghost Story
Scooby-Doo (2002)
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
The Boy (2016)
The Invisible Man (1933)
Tremors
Us
October 5
The Boogeyman
October 16
Dracula Untold
October 18
Companion
October 24
The Beast Within
October 31
The Woman in the Yard
Shudder
‘Hell House LLC: Lineage’
October 1
Psycho
Rear Window
The Birds
Vertigo
REC
REC 2
REC 3: Genesis
REC IV: Apocalypse
Wolf Creek
Final Prayer (aka The Borderlands)
High Tension
October 3
V/H/S/Halloween
October 6
When A Stranger Calls (1979)
Invader
Crumb Catcher
October 9
Bloat
Alien Expanded
October 13
Odd Thomas
The Limehouse Golem
October 15
Etheria Film Night 2025
October 17
Jack-O
OTHER
October 19
Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
October 22
Tale of Tales
October 30
Hell House LLC: Lineage
Tubi
‘Dark Harvest’
October 1
30 Days of Night (2007)
30 Days of Night: Dark Days
An American Werewolf in London
Annihilation
Arachnophobia
Big Trouble in Little China
The Blackcoat’s Daughter
The Burbs
Climax
The Crow
Dark Harvest
Frankenstein (2004)
From Dusk Till Dawn
The Good Son (1993)
Grind House: Death Proof
Grind House: Planet Terror
The Grudge (2019)
The Guardian
Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters
The Hills Have Eyes
The Hills Have Eyes 2
Hollow Man
Insidious: The Last Key
Interview With a Vampire
Jennifer’s Body
Lamb
The Last Witch Hunter
Life After Beth
Medusa Deluxe
Men (2022)
The Monster
The Mummy (1999)
The Mummy Returns
The Munsters
The Omen
P2 (2007)
Pi
The Ring
Saw
Saw 2
Saw 3
Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation
Tusk
The Twilight Zone
Under the Skin
Vampire in Brooklyn
The Vault
The Visit
The Voyeurs
Wicked City
October 3
Match
October 6
Eraserhead
October 11
Sting
October 15
Don’t Breathe
October 17
R.L. Stine’s Pumpkinhead
October 25
Don’t Turn Out the Lights
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